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Sunday, August 23, 2015
British hostage rescued in Yemen by UAE forces
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleForces from the United Arab Emirates rescue a British hostage held for more than a year by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, authorities in London and Abu Dhabi say.
A statement by the UAE’s official WAM news agency says 64-year-old Douglas Robert Semple, a petroleum engineer, was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in February 2014 in Yemen’s vast desert Hadramawt province.
It says UAE forces freed Semple in a military operation and took him to Yemen’s main southern city of Aden, from where he was flown to Abu Dhabi.
— AFP
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